Notices by veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)

@teto @sim @Morghur I think everyone should have at least one platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex.

We still have it comparatively better than others, but those others are continuously bringing us to their level. I am prepared to beat them at their own game. I can be homeless. I can become a forest creature. I can die of sepsis in a far-off ravine. I am unbound.

its one thing if I had infinite time on earth and could outlast the circumstances thrust upon me, but I don't and so the golden solution(tm) takes a backseat.

@professionalbigot69 It'd be one thing if these were just stops along the interstate, but it never evolves past this. The towns just grow outward until you have parking lot fast food for miles with labyrinthine suburbia sprawled between it. Don't gaslight me, I've seen how places could look even with major long distance travel support infrastructure. Whatever "soul" we have in the nation only is visible in the pockets of old town or the untouched wilderness.

@teto @professionalbigot69 I met up with expats many times while abroad. One thing I always noticed was how they rarely even tried to assimilate, and that wanton disregard for those who build what they enjoy goes against my own morals. So, even if I move out of the country, I won't be like the locals no matter how hard I try, and I won't enjoy the company of the other Americans either. I'm really, truly alone.

@teto @professionalbigot69 If the geography were the only problem, I wouldn't even bring it up, I'd simply move. The issue is that, no matter what state you choose as a backdrop, it's all the same on the inside. I can't purchase a home, only brutalist apartments exist. I can't buy land, and if I could, I can't build property without endless red lines and codes. And even if those went away, the idealic American homestead life is also selecting your own isolation.

@Griffith @nugger Maybe I just caught on really early as a kid, but every single thing I wanted to learn was immediately available on the family computer. Paper maché instructions, photography lessons, mechanic videos, philosophy lectures, psychology research papers, everything. I felt like the biggest gaslighting victim growing up and being stuck in school for years and years, and then expected to voluntarily spend even longer in college for something that could take an afternoon of research to become familiar with.

I only went to school because my profession requires govt certification, and school was the fastest possible method to obtaining it. If I could've gotten to work as more than an underpaid apprentice doing what I do now, there would be no reason for me to ever go to school, and there isnt a reason for the vast plurality of the entire world.

I will never take headmeds because once I admit to losing enough control of the mind to need chemical assistance, there is a near guarantee that I will lose it again and again as I no longer have to stretch that skill. don't use it you lose it